As the Internet grows in importance, an attack on it could cause
physical as well as informational damage. An attack today on hospital
systems or electric utilities could lead to deaths. In the future an
attack could be used to alter the output that is produced by
nanofactories worldwide leading to massive deaths.

The LifePreserver program is designed to bring you the latest
information about aging research and the progress towards treating
age-related diseases. The program also aims to bring you practical
information about the steps you can take now to slow the aging process
and delay the onset of age-related disease.

To prevent, and also make plans on surviving when possible, particle
accelerator mishaps
including quantum vacuum collapse, mining the quantum vacuum,
formation of a stable strangelet, and
the creation of artificial mini-black holes.

To protect against and/or cope with our sun becoming a red giant and
other harmful fluctuations in its output.

Overview

An
existential risk is a risk that is both global and terminal. Nick
Bostrom defines it as a risk “where an adverse outcome
would either annihilate Earth-originating intelligent life or
permanently
and drastically curtail its potential”. The term is frequently used
to describe disaster and
doomsday scenarios caused by non-friendly superintelligence, misuse of
molecular nanotechnology, or other sources of danger.

The Lifeboat Foundation was formed to prevent
existential events from
happening, as once they occur, humanity may have no possibility to
correct
the error. Unfortunately governments, and humanity in general, always
react AFTER a disaster has happened, and some disasters
will
leave no survivors so we must react BEFORE they occur.
We must be proactive.

The Lifeboat Foundation is developing programs to prevent existential
events (“shields”) as well as programs to preserve civilization
(“preservers”) to survive such events.